Motivational Quotes

Change

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Change

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

10.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

11.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

12.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

18.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

30.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

31.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

32.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

33.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

34.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.